What a disgraceful sounding event, @boardofdeputies.bsky.social should be ashamed. Meanwhile @rabbisinchief.bsky.social need to wake up to what being used as a prop like this will do to our community.

I decided not to travel in to see my community's 350-year legacy in this country trampled on by bigots and opportunists, but I'm glad Alona did.

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"It’s well past time for many at Westminster to stop asking 'what is the UK’s anti-racism movement doing to stop this?' and to start asking 'what am I doing to recreate the UK’s anti-racism movement?'"

It is quite weird that when so much of our labour market policy needs fixing - we can't stop talking about the one lever we have been pretty successful at using already! Meanwhile we are almost unique in the OECD in having no proper system of unemployment insurance but no one seems interested!

I will defend London style beigels to the death, if I can see through the bagel hole something has gone wrong

Good piece. Especially the point that three quarters of degrees are already “vocational”

Read the article to restore your faith in everything. This is why I love the UK, specifically London, specifically Finchley. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

Lebanon is such a grim example of Israeli hubris and its folly. Israel had countless opportunities to negotiate a stable peace with the Lebanese govt, but time and time again chose invasion and/or mucking about in Lebanese civil wars via exploitable proxies. Why? Two reasons...

The bases should never have been opened to US use. They should now immediately be closed to them. This is patently the case. It is a military power with explicitly genocidal intent. Given how severe that danger is, the reassurances of its military officials about authorised use are insufficient.

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."

How would we know? The Conservatives in 2019 and Labour in 2024 both ran on impossible promises and most of their partisans have spent the time since complaining that the voters are unreasonable. When was the last chance you gave them to *be* reasonable?

Its really fustrating that Labour has such talented MPs like Polly and Uma - who get the scale of the interlinked challenges we face - and they're on the backbenches while the govt continues to bury its head in the sand as to what is going to hit us.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Does Labour really want to do it like Denmark? I've written about why the strategy is increasingly beleaguered, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/728...

Great piece by @colinyeo.bsky.social on Shabana Mahmood's migration reforms - key point: regardless of whether the change is retrospective, tying visa status to an employer for 10-20 years is a very bad idea if you care about integration or labour market outcomes. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

The meme-ridden discourse of our era is no longer fully capable of communicating the scale of the crises we face.

We unreservedly condemn the abhorrent antisemitic attack on Hatzola - a Jewish volunteer ambulance service which provides life saving emergency care to those of all faiths and none. Our thoughts are with all those affected by this reprehensible act.

Today's newsletter. Cheery topic!

I missed this: Govt published LPC's remit for the 2027 minimum wage rates on Monday (the rates coming in next month are already set). Main take-away is Govt wants a more cautious approach to the youth rates. It has dialed up the 'worry about employment' bit of the remit. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Good thread, this is the key point. Far too many people in British politics seem to not understand that ultimately the thing causing the energy price shock is...the world doesn't have as much energy as it did before Trump invaded Iran, something with real and deadly consequences.

A genuinely big announcement on English devolution from Rachel Reeves today! As we at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk alongside others have argued fiscal devolution was a missing piece of the puzzle in the government's devolution white paper.

Interesting that in the year of the Mokyr Nobel, the government has gone all in on Bob Allen thought!

I think Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture today does a good job of setting out the thinking behind the government’s growth strategy. In her telling, it combines planning reform (to get more stuff built) a more active state (to invest in key sectors) and raising labour costs (to get companies to invest)

At a time of rising antisemitism, the Trump administration is trying to make American Jews into wards of the state, whose safety depends on political compliance. It's a bargain we should refuse, as I explain here: forward.com/opinion/8126...

Such a dismal tale about the UK govt: so obsessed w competing with far-right to keep out foreigners that it won’t let in the brightest & best from war-torn countries even when they’re hand-picked by the FCDO, lest they ask to stay. Soft power sacrificed, but how many Reform voters will it convert?

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:

An economically, politically and morally bankrupt strategy. Bad for individuals, bad for families, bad for businesses, bad for public services, bad for integration and cohesion. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

before diving into agentic AI coding, learn git. Version control becomes even more critical when you need to undo what the AI did. (And no, letting the AI manage versioning is not the answer.)